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Happy Thursday! I’m here with a quick post about the Bestie Triplet Chalkboard Nails I did!

Warning – Sappy content ahead:

I feel exceedingly lucky to have stumbled into the little piece of internet nail heaven where I met @ineedamani and @thedotcouture. The ladies I have met are wonderful enablers, insanely supportive, and ridiculously talented. They pick me up on my bad days and have enough charity to laugh at my nonsensical jokes. If you are looking for two more talented ladies to follow on IG, definitely check these two out. Their work is insane! And @ineedamani has some sneak peak swatches of M Polish that put mine to shame!

So, when @ineedamani and @thedotcouture suggested Bestie Triplet Nails, I was SO on board! Here’s how they turned out:

Pretty fun, right? I love chalkboard nails. You get to have such fun with them and add in child-like doodles.

I’ve posted about them before and they are super easy, but here’s a quick recap: put down a black base; stamp in white; top coat; matte coat; DONE!

Here’s a close-up of mine:

I was testing a new stamper (post coming on that baby probably next week!), so they are a touch patchy, but overall I love them. You can’t dislike something so childish and fun, right?!

I do feel I should share a few other tidbits: my blogs aren’t as frequent because I’ve been burying myself in setting up M Polish. It has totally become a second job and is taking up a ton of my time, but is totally worth it. Is anyone interested in reading about the process and getting sneak peaks of the polish behind the scenes? If so, I’ll start adding those in!

So, today is going to be busy at work and I wanted some bold kick ass nails to go with it. My favorite color is red and in keeping with trying to use a lot of my untried polishes, here is what I came up with:

I can’t lie, I’m pretty pleased with these bad boys. Here’s what I used for this mani:

There are a lot of untrieds here: this is my first mani with the Barry Ms and my reformulated Black. This is the version that will likely hit the market next month! I have used this Bunny Nails plate one before, but every time I use her plates it is like the first time all over again. If you have checked her plates out yet, you really should! I have a few of the HD and BuNa plates and all have been outstanding. The images are large, which is great for my lumberjack nails. Plus, the are etched deeply, making images that would typically be more difficult easy to use.

Okay, enough Bunny Nails love fest (for now…). I started with a coat of Glitter Off on my ring finger. I tend to use Glitter Off with all textured and glitter polishes. I don’t like discovering the hard way that a polish is tough to remove. Glitter Off saves me gobs of time and effort in the long run.

Once the Glitter Off was dry, I used Essie Protein Base on each nail. My ring finger then got two coats of Majesty and the rest got two coats of Blood Orange. Both of these could easily be one coaters if you pay attention. I am a two coat type of girl, and generally can’t help myself from adding the second coat even if I don’t really need it. Here’s how it looked:

Pretty all by itself, right? The Blood Orange nails are topped with China Glaze quick dry, but Majesty is not yet top coated here.

Once that was all dry, I added the stamp using M Polish and my BuNa B plate. then topped it all off with one coat of Seche Vite. Here’s the final product:

Today I bring you Packers inspired nails! I am participating in an NFL nails challenge through the playoffs and Super Bowl. My hometeam is waaaaay out of contention and is my husband’s, so I opted for the Green Bay Packers! Here’s what I came up with:

Green and gold cheese nails! This mani came together pretty easily. Here’s what I used:

I picked up Envious during Bear Pawlish‘s black friday sale. She has some killer holos, and this one did not disappoint:

It is a beautiful emerald green color . I wasn’t able to capture the holo so well, but trust me when I say it is there. This is two coats.

I had ordered a FUN plate to try (my first) during Llarowe‘s sale and it just happened to arrive the day I was planning to do these nails! And, it has an image that looked just like swiss cheese to me! It probably would have looked more swiss-y had I used white, but I wanted to stick with the green and gold colors for the Packers. So, I busted out one of my gold prototypes and added some gold cheese!

I really like these. I think they look a little ridiculous, but just perfect to root on the Packers today!

It is a nice dark creme, perfect for some art or, in this case, a topper! I added two coats of the blue:

This blue looks amazing when it is painted or stamped over dark colors, but is very sheer on its own or over light colors. And, yes, I know the clean-up here is a mess. I was rushing and knew I was going to stamp over it. So, basically, I was too lazy to do a perfect clean-up knowing I was going to have to do it again.

I used BuNa B to stamp some crazy zig zags:

It is topped with one coat of Seche here. I changed the placement of the stamp a bit for each nail. I really like nails that aren’t exactly the same. That is, in part, because I’m terrible at making them all perfectly the same. But, I also like the slight variation that it gives.

I hope you are all as excited for M Polish’s release as I am. If you want to see more swatches and keep up to date on the release, don’t forget to follow @mpolishes on Instagram!